This Month

Meeting December 18, 2012 @The Exchange

Javascript Lightning.

“Javascript Lightning”

Can you believe it? This month concludes our first full year as a usergroup!

We thought it would be a great idea to have a user driven meeting for this month. For the first part, the majority of the meeting, we will be doing lightning talks from community members. If you’ve never been involved in one of those before, its pretty simple: Its an open forum where our members can get up and talk about what they want. The talks need to be short - generally 5-10 minutes. You can cover anything that is javascript, or related to javascript. You can talk about a problem you’ve solved, a plugin you like, a cool blog post you read, something you’re working on now, or pretty much any other way you’re using javascript to achieve your goals

For the second part, we will have a sort of townhall related to okcjs. This is a chance for us to discuss stuff related to the future of our group, such as topics you think will be important for upcoming months or anything else.

This Month

The first presentation will be on Frisby.js. Frisby is a REST API testing framework built on node.js and Jasmine that makes testing API endpoints easy, fast, and fun. Frisby.js is invented by Vance Lucas

The second presentation will cover D3. D3 is a avaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.

About “Ninjas of the Javascript”

Meeting March 20, 2012 from 11:30am - 12:30pm at the <div> in Edmond, OK. Batteries not included, but lunch is!

A Frontal Assault

Last month, we highlighted some of the awesome things happening withserverside javascript. Now, this month we want to highlight someawesome uses of javascript for the client, and for frontend designers.We have two awesome presentations lined up that will demonstrate thediversity and usefulness of javascript in your workflow.

Photoshop Automation With Javascript

Javascript is everwhere, and if you frequently work in programs such asimage editors, video editors and sound editors you might be surprised tofind Javascript in the most unlikely of places. That means as adeveloper or designer, harnessing the power of scripting gives you anincredible edge. Photoshop gives you the ability to implement javascriptfor a variety of tasks, which can save you time. It is time to learn theancient secrets of Photoshop, and Dragon Punch™ your photoshop workflowwith the power of Javascript.

Effective Clientside Patterns with the jQuery UI Widget factory

Many of you use jQuery, and similarly, many of you use jQuery UI. Itstime to go beyond simply using the presets and default widgets in yourjQuery UI library. In this talk, we will cover how $.widget reallyworks, and how beyond its surface, using the widget factory can help youwrite elegant and well organized javascript code in your nextapplication. Do not attend expecting a blow by blow demonstration of thedefault widgets. Instead, this is for those who are looking for ways toorganize their codebase with good patterns and solve their own uniqueproblems with jQuery UI. Shadow Kick™ your web application’s clientsidecodebase with the awesome javascript conventions, CSS conventions andstate management afforded by jQuery UI!